Narrative of a Japanese.
Heco, Joseph.
(American-Japanese Publishing Association), ( n.d. (ca. 1950)), (San Fran.)
2 vols. iii, 346, (6); 254, (6), v pp. b/w ills.
Price: $200
Heco, a native of Osaka Japan, was cast adrift and rescued by an American vessel in 1850. He learned English, was educated in America, and worked as one of the first translators for American consuls in Japan. He became an important figure in the development of Japanese-American relations. This journal of his activities runs up to 1890 and the Tokyo earthquake. It was originally published in Yokohama, but that edition is practically nonexistent. Both volumes are inscribed from Urajiro Ishizaka to Dr. Alfred Crofts, Christmas 1856. Ishikaza was a Japanese American who had been held in an American internment camp during WW II. Crofts was a history professor at the University of Denver who authored a book about the Far East. Two volumes, very good condition in original cloth bindings